Epipogium taiwanense, a detail morphological description and additional new record to mainland China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 453 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-48
Author(s):  
XUN-FENG WU ◽  
QIANG LIU ◽  
YING TANG ◽  
KUAN-BO CHI ◽  
YU-QIAN WANG ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Morphological Description ◽  
Longitudinal Ridge ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Red List Categories

Epipogium taiwanense, is published in the book of Illustrated Flora of Taiwan in 2018. However, here only the specimen and simply descriptions were existed on which the protologue was based. Plant and flowers characteristics were not described in enough detail in the original description. Fortunately, it was rediscovered from Yunnan and Sichuan Province, China. It is morphological similar to E. aphyllum, but it can be easily distinguished from the latter by having large size flower bract (2.0 × 1.0 cm, significantly longer than pedicel and ovary), epichile of labellum concave with 1 longitudinal ridge on mid-lobe and the spur strongly recurve in the apex connecting with bottom of mid-lobe. A preliminary risk-of-ex­tinction assessment, according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria, is given for the newly recorded species.

scholarly journals The rediscovery of Carya poilanei (Juglandaceae) after 80 years reveals a new record from China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei-Ping Zhang ◽  
Wei-Ning Bai ◽  
Da-Yong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Fruit Set ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Morphological Description ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Breast Height ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Adult Trees

Despite having been first published in 1941, Carya poilanei (Chev.) Leroy is only known from two original collections in Vietnam and Laos; however, it has not been recollected since then and long suspected to be extinct by repeated deforestation events. Here, we report the rediscovery, and meanwhile the first new record in China, of this extremely rare gigantic hickory species at Yunnan province after 80 years. Three small patchy subpopulations were found with a total of about 50 adult trees have diameter at breast height (DBH) larger than 60 cm, together with some seedlings and saplings, but the fruit set was low. Based on multiple fresh materials, we present a revised morphological description of C. poilanei, and an updated distribution map for the species. In addition, we also provided a key for the hickories in China. Lastly, we suggest C. poilanei should be listed as Critically Endangered (CR) or Endangered (EN) species according to the latest IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.

scholarly journals Miconia rheophytica (Melastomataceae: Miconieae), a new and endangered species from the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia

Phytotaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 371 (1) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
JUAN MAURICIO POSADA-HERRERA ◽  
FRANK ALMEDA
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Conservation Assessment ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Leaf Surfaces ◽  
Red List Categories ◽  
Bright Blue ◽  
Lanceolate Leaf

Miconia rheophytica is described, illustrated, and compared with presumed relatives in the Octopleura clade. It is distinguished by its narrowly elliptic to ovate-lanceolate leaf blades with entire to subentire margins that have evenly spaced spreading smooth eglandular trichomes 0.8−1.4 mm long, an indumentum of dendritic trichomes with short axes and terete radiating arms on distal internodes, adaxial petiole surfaces, and primary and secondary veins on abaxial leaf surfaces, unribbed hypanthia that are constricted and tapered distally below the torus and covered with a mixture of basally roughened trichomes and dendritic trichomes with short axes, anthers with two ± truncate apical pores, eglandular anther appendages, 3-locular ovary, and berries that are bright blue at maturity. It is known only from flash-flooded riverbanks in three river canyons in the Magdalena Medio region of Antioquia, Colombia. A conservation assessment of “Endangered” is recommended for this species based on IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.

scholarly journals Primulina silaniae sp. nov. (Gesneriaceae) from the limestone area of Guizhou Province, China

PhytoKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 123-130
Author(s):  
Jin-Quan Zhang ◽  
Hong Huang ◽  
Mei-Jun Li ◽  
Mei Huang ◽  
Quan-Yuan Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
New Taxon ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Red List Categories ◽  
A New Species

Primulina silaniae X.X.Bai & F.Wen, a new species of Primulina Hance (Gesneriaceae) from the limestone area of Wangmo County, Guizhou Province, is described and illustrated. The new species is similar to P. spiradiclioides Z.B.Xin & F.Wen, but can be easily distinguished from the latter by a combination of characteristics, especially in the lateral veins of its leaf and floral shape and tube. At present, three populations in one locality of this new taxon were found, totaling about 600 mature individuals. According to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria (Version 3.1), the species is provisionally assessed as Vulnerable [VU D1].

scholarly journals Odontochilus putaoensis (Cranichideae, Orchidaceae), a new species from Myanmar

PhytoKeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye Lwin Aung ◽  
Aye Thin Mu ◽  
Xiaohua Jin
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Conservation Assessment ◽  
Asian Species ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Light Yellow ◽  
Red List Categories ◽  
A New Species

Odontochilusputaoensis, a new species of Orchidaceae, is described and illustrated from Putao Township, Kachin State, Myanmar.Odontochilusputaoensisis close toO.duplex, but can be easily distinguished from the latter by having a light yellow lip, a bisaccate hypochile with a small, erect, blade-like and emarginate callus within each sac, a mesochile with a pair of dentate-pectinate flanges and a bilobed epichile with a pair of widely diverging lobes that are erect and concave. An identification key to the Southeast Asian species ofOdontochilusand colour photographs ofO.putaoensisare provided. A preliminary conservation assessment according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria is given for the new species.

Liparis popaensis (Orchidaceae), a new species from Myanmar

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 413 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
AYE THIN MU ◽  
YE LWIN AUNG ◽  
XIAOHUA JIN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
National Park ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Conservation Assessment ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Red List Categories ◽  
A New Species

Liparis popaensis, a new species of Orchidaceae, is described from Popa Mountain National Park, central Myanmar. Liparis popaensis is morphologically similar to L. odorata but it differs from the latter by having oblong-lanceolate dorsal sepal, column with two triangular wings and lip with a pair of subconical and basally adjoining calli at its base. Identification key and colour photographs are provided. A preliminary conservation assessment according to the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria is given for the new species.

Ocimum sebrabergensis (Lamiaceae), a new species from Namibia

Phytotaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 405 (4) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
WESSEL SWANEPOEL ◽  
ERNST J. VAN JAARSVELD
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Clayey Soil ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Morphological Features ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Conservation Assessment ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Red List Categories ◽  
A New Species

Ocimum sebrabergensis, here described as new species, has a restricted range and is only known from the Zebra Mountains within the Kaokoveld Centre of Endemism, northwestern Namibia. These shrubs grow on clayey soil among greyish black rocks of anorthosite. Diagnostic characters for O. sebrabergensis include the mauve-coloured corolla with four orbicular lobes on the posterior lip and the calyx which has the lateral lobes of the anterior lip asymmetric lanceolate. Ocimum sebrabergensis is placed in Ocimum subg. Ocimum sect. Hiantia subsect. Hiantia ser. Serpyllifolium. A comparison of some of the more prominent morphological features to differentiate between O. sebrabergensis and its possible nearest relatives, O. burchellianum and O. fimbriatum, are provided. Based on IUCN Red List categories and criteria, a conservation assessment of Vulnerable (VU D1) is recommended for the new species.

Eremitis limae (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a new species of herbaceous bamboo endemic to the Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil

Phytotaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 454 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-284
Author(s):  
FABRÍCIO MOREIRA FERREIRA ◽  
CASSIANO A. DORNELES WELKER ◽  
LYNN G. CLARK ◽  
REYJANE P. OLIVEIRA
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Morphological Characters ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Coastal Forests ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Red List Categories ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
A New Species

Eremitis limae, a new species of Parianinae (Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Olyreae) endemic to the coastal forests of Bahia, Brazil, is described and illustrated. It is morphologically similar to species of Eremitis with characteristically narrow leaves: E. linearifolia, E. parviflora, and E. riodocensis. We discuss the morphological characters distinguishing the new species from its close relatives, and we also present illustrations, photos, and a distribution map. Eremitis limae is classified as Endangered (EN) according to the IUCN Red List categories and criteria.

scholarly journals Overview of the conservation status of Australian frogs

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Marc Hero ◽  
Clare Morrison ◽  
Graeme Gillespie ◽  
J. Dale Roberts ◽  
David Newell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Conservation Status ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Amphibian Species ◽  
Current Conservation ◽  
World Conservation ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
Threatening Processes ◽  
Red List Categories

A review of the current conservation status of Australian amphibians was recently completed as part of a World Conservation Union (IUCN) sponsored Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA). Fifty of 216 amphibian species (23%) in Australia are now recognized as threatened or extinct in accord with IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Here we report on the categories and criteria under which individual species qualified for listing and provide a summary of supporting information pertaining to population and distribution declines. Major threatening processes contributing to listing of species are also reviewed.

scholarly journals Assessing the effectiveness of Madagascar’s changing protected areas system: a case study of threatened Boraginales

Oryx ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
James S. Miller ◽  
Holly A. Porter Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Plant Conservation ◽  
Iucn Red List ◽  
Red List ◽  
Iucn Red List Categories ◽  
System A ◽  
Red List Categories

AbstractThreat analyses of the Boraginales were conducted and used to assess the effectiveness of Madagascar’s current and proposed protected area systems in conserving the threatened species of a group of plants widespread in Madagascar. Specimen locality data for 52 species of four families of Boraginales were analysed to provisionally assign species to IUCN Red List categories. Six species were excluded from these global analyses as they are non-native and introduced. IUCN’s criterion B, analysis of geographical range, was found to be the most reliable means of estimating threat, and predicted future decline was found to overestimate threat. Twenty-six of the 46 native species of Boraginales were found to be threatened. Sixty-five percent of these have portions of their ranges in the 2002 protected areas system. When the protected areas system was expanded in 2006 the percentage of species with some protected populations increased to 78%. More than 93% would be protected if a series of proposed priority areas for plant conservation were protected. The implications of these analyses for the conservation of plant species in Madagascar are discussed.

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